Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. 325 West End Avenue, Apt. 10B New York City, New York, 10023-8145 Tel: 646 827-0724 Fax: 212 496-9182 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Catalogue 214 Proofs Science, Medicine, Natural History, Bibliography, & British Agriculture Selective Subject Index on Following Pages 2 JONATHAN A. HILL Selective Subject Index Agriculture: 1, 30, 31, 33, 36, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 48, 51, 52, 55-58, 62, 69, 79, 81, 90, 91, 93-100 Alchemy: 92 Algebra: 80 Americana: 79 Anatomy: 67, 70 Architecture: 53, 55, 57, 58, 63 Art: 51, 53, 63, 71, 72 Astronomy: 20, 80 Auction Catalogues: 4-26 Bibliography: 2, 4-26, 28, 32, 37, 38, 40, 43, 46, 53, 59, 60, 63, 65, 66, 71, 73, 75, 76, 83-89 Biography: 71, 72 Biology: 48 Botany: 33, 52, 61, 68, 78, 81, 91 Bridges: 77 Canals: 27, 50 Cartography: 35 Catalogues: 68, 73, 75, 76, 83-89 Chemistry: 15, 34, 49, 54, 82, 91, 92 Dictionaries: 40, 62 Early Printed Books (before 1601): 3, 83-89 Economics: 27, 36, 45, 50, 56, 78, 82, 93-100 Engineering: 50, 77 Epidemics & Plagues: 29 Forestry: 52, 78, 93 Gardens: 55, 57, 58, 68, 81 Garrison-Morton items: 70 Gastronomy: 68, 82 Gems: 49 Geography: 35 Geology: 47, 54 Geometry: 80 History: 2, 50, 53, 63, 71, 72, 79 Horticulture: 33, 54, 78 Hospitals: 74 Hydraulics: 31 Incunabula: 46 CATALOGUE TWO HUNDRED & FOURTEEN 3 Law: 23, 79 Literature: 17-19, 21, 57, 71, 73 Mathematics: 80 Medicine: 3, 4, 15, 29, 67, 70, 74 Mineralogy: 49, 54 Museums & Cabinets: 51 Natural History: 15, 33, 47, 49, 52. 54, 61, 64, 68, 78, 81 Neurology: 29 Newtoniana: 80 Ophthalmology: 29 Osteology: Otology: 70 Physiology: 48, 70 Railroads: 27, 50 Surveying: 35 Technology: 27, 34, 50, 77, 82 Textiles: 34, 82 Transport: 27, 50 Urology: 29 Veterinary Medicine: 96 Catalogue Begins on Following Page 4 JONATHAN A. HILL Catalogue 214 1. ANDERSON, James. General View of the Agriculture and Rural Economy of the County of Aberdeen with Observations on the Means of its Improvement…Drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. One engraved plan. Tables in the text. 181 (i.e. 182), [2] pp. Large 4to, cont. calf-backed marbled boards, flat spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Edinburgh: 1794. $1650.00 First edition and a lovely presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title: “To George Dempster of Dunnichen Esqr from his much obliged h[umb]le serv[an]t The Author.” Anderson (1739–1808), was an agriculturist and political economist. “His most striking characteristic was the combination of an intense interest in the practical working of some machine or object with a strong grasp of theory. He was an early adherent of the principles of political economy, and is held to have been in the subject’s mainstream of development. He also carried out various experiments and was noted for his use of the newly designed two-horse plough at Monkshill. His long-term reputation rests on a large body of publications; pamphlets, newspapers, and articles in other people’s works, for which he is said to have had at least fourteen aliases: Agricola, Timoleon, Germanicus, Cimon, Scoto-Britannicus, E., Aberdeen, Henry Plain, Impartial, A CATALOGUE TWO HUNDRED & FOURTEEN 5 Scot, Senex, Timothy Hairbrain, Alcibiades, and Monsoon… “Anderson wrote one of the county volumes for Sinclair’s board of agriculture, A general view of the agriculture and rural economy of the county of Aberdeen and the means for its improvement (1794). This is of particular interest, for it contains an account of how the landowners of the county prevented the harvest failure of 1782 leading to famine. A sample of the poor grain was taken and from it was calculated the amount of oatmeal it could provide; the total shortfall was calculated and decisions made on how much the labour force should tighten their belts, how much the next harvest could be brought early to market, and how much the landowners needed to buy abroad and subsidize. The meeting for the initial measurement was held at Mounie, the estate of Anderson’s wife, known for being one where harvest was early. It seems highly probable that the whole response to the emergency was initiated by Anderson.”–ODNB. The recipient of this book, George Dempster (1732-1818), agriculturist and politician, made notable efforts at his estate of Dunnichen to provide greater prosperity for both tenant and landlord by a reform of agricultural practices and the conditions under which tenants worked, and by the introduction of manufacturing industry. For more on him and his very active life, see ODNB. Fine and large copy with the Dunnichen library bookplate. É Fussell, II, pp. 104-07. “The Best Bibliography Before the 18th Century”–Besterman 2. ANTONIO, Nicolás. Bibliotheca Hispana sive Hispanorum, qui usquam unquamue sive Latina sive populari sive alia quavis lingua scripto aliquid consignaverunt Notitia, his quae praecesserunt locupletior et certior brevia elogia, editorum atque ineditorum operum catalogum Duabus Partibus continens, quarum haec ordine quidom rei posterior, conceptu vero prior duobus tomis de his agit. Two finely engraved inserted frontispieces. Title printed in red & black. 40 p.l., 633 pp.; 690 pp. Two vols. Folio, cont. red morocco (lower edges very slightly worn at outer corners), triple gilt fillets round sides, spines richly gilt, contrasting leather lettering pieces on spines, a.e.g. Rome: N.A. Tinassi, 1672. [with]: —. Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus, sive Hispanorum, qui usquam unquámue scripto aliquid consignaverunt, notitia. Complectens scriptores omnes qui ab Octaviani Augusti imperio usque ad annum M. flouerunt. xl, [8], 410 pp.; 9 p.l., 286, [62] pp. Two vols. in one. Folio, cont. red morocco with nearly identical tooling as above, a.e.g. Rome: A. de Rubeis, 1696. $12,500.00 First editions and a fine complete set of this incomparable one-man achievement in the field of national bibliography. “To Spain belongs the credit 6 JONATHAN A. HILL of having produced what is easily not merely the biggest but the best national bibliography before the eighteenth century. This is the Bibliotheca Hispana of Nicolaus Antonius. The first section of this work appeared in two large folio volumes from the press in Rome of Nicolaus Angelus Tinassius. Extending altogether to 1,360 closely printed pages, it consists of the main text in alphabetical order of authors by Christian names, followed by a succession of appendixes and appendixes to appendixes, bringing the work up to date; a section devoted to women writers; a section in three parts, devoted respectively to foreign writers in Spanish or to writers in the Spanish colonies, to writers closely connected with Spain, and to foreign writers on Spain; an index by surnames; a topographical index; four indexes by ecclesiastical adherence and rank; and finally a subject index based on an interesting classification. The whole work deals with Spanish authors since 1500, in whatever language they wrote, and enumerates about 6,500 such writers. The bibliographical details are remarkably full and accurate, and altogether this work, though it is little known, deserves to hold a high place among the classics of systematic bibliography… “Nicolaus Antonius unfortunately did not live to see the second part of his great work through the press. It was published posthumously in Rome in 1696, in two folio volumes, about half the length of the first two, printed by Antonius de Rubeis. The Bibliotheca Hispana vetus deals in its first volume with Spanish writers from the beginning to the year 1000, in the second volume with those who flourished between 1000 and 1500. To the latter volume is added a ‘Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana’, and a subject index to both volumes. Although the interest of these two volumes is naturally mainly literary and historical, they are of considerable value even from a specifically bibliographical point of view.”–Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography, pp. 44-45. Fine and handsome set in matching bindings. Bindings with a few minor scuff marks. Occasional light foxing or browning. Complete sets are today rare on the market. Small old Jesuit library stamp on titles. É Grolier Club, Bibliography, 66–“This amazing work is not only the biggest but also the best national bibliography published prior to the eighteenth century…The bibliographical details are remarkably full ; several subject indices are provided. Antonio, who was perhaps the first scholar to devote himself full-time to bibliography, started this work in 1649 and constantly added to it until his death 35 years later.” 3. ARTICELLA. Articella nuperrime impressa cum quamplurimis tractatibus pristine impressioni superadditis: ut patet i[dest] pagina sequenti. Petri Pomarii Valentini Hispani ad lector[e]m hexastychon… Full-page woodcut of a bloodletting figure & woodcut diagrams. Gothic letter in two columns. Title printed in red & black within a woodcut border. ccclxx leaves [i.e., CATALOGUE TWO HUNDRED & FOURTEEN 7 ccclxviii (cclxv and cclxvi omitted in foliation)]. Small 8vo, cont. limp vellum (new endpapers, slight browning, ties gone). [Lyon: A. du Ry for Giunta, 1525]. $2750.00 Later edition of the Articella, a collection of classical and Arabic medical works which incorporated the most popular texts used in the medical schools during the 13th-15th centuries. It includes works of Hunain ibn Ishaq (Johannitius), Theophilos, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, Arnald de Villanova, Mesue, and other smaller works (the list of contents appears of f. 1v). The “Hippocratic Oath” appears on f. 17r. “As a medical library in one volume, which underwent six editions in the fifteenth century and many other editions in the first half of the sixteenth century, the work reflects changing attitudes to various ancient texts and translations through the constant evolution of its contents.”–Garrison & Morton 52–(1st ed.